Trained as a biologist, Rob Lee was a Special Agent
with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Law Enforcement,
based in Lubbock, Texas. A winner of the 1998 Guy Bradley award, which
recognizes outstanding law enforcement contributions to conservation,
Mr. Lee is best known for his ten-year effort to eliminate waste oil
hazards to migratory birds in west Texas, which had contributed to the
deaths of millions of songbirds, waterfowl, shorebirds and raptors
caught in the sludge of over 1200 un-netted open oil pits, a loss that
exceeded the Valdez spill impacts. Mr. Lee also participated in
the prosecution of defendants involved in pronghorn antelope killings,
rare insect smuggling, burrowing owl poisoning, and gamebird poaching.

Outside of work, he has served on the board of the
South Plains
Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, which provides care to orphaned, ill,
injured and displaced wildlife, as well as offering environmental
education to the community.